Ben, thanks for your work on this. Your message arrived while I was flying back from IETF 82 in Taipei, and I've been catching up ever since. Thankfully, my IESG term is over at the end of March, so I will have much more time then.
On 11/20/11 2:50 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote: > Hi, > > I'l try to sum up the status as of now: > > I built an little application, that should make it a lot easier to > process new list-applications in the future, as it automates some of > the steps necessary to verify a new server. > At the moment it has the following features: > > * form for server-admins to register their servers > * automatic sending of verification-email with verification-link to > proove email-address is real > * basic check if server is reachable > * check for SRV-records > * check for StartTLS/SSL (this is a bit unreliable at the moment and > would have to be improved) That's great. As I posted to the list recently, I think I've figured out a way to do all of those steps over XMPP. However, we can and should use your tool until the native XMPP solution is widely deployed (and it's not even *implemented* yet in any XMPP servers, although I'm aiming to at least do that in the Prosody codebase). > * export of list ready to import into the current > wordpress-table-format on xmpp.org I had some trouble with the WordPress tables on xmpp.org -- it seems that I was not able to remove any rows even though I am an admin of the WordPress installation. Do you know why that could be? > I asked if this application could be deployed to the server that hosts > xmpp.org so that it could be integrated in to the page > (http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2011-September/001219.html). > No answer on that so far. I'm happy to do that. Again, my apologies for the delayed reply. > Regarding the list itself and new applications to it: > We processed all new applications (until today) into this application > and also marked old, non-responding server as not-verified there. I > exported the updated list and imported it to the xmpp-wordpress. > After this I asked if somebody could approve this and make it public, > but as of now, nobody did (see > http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2011-September/001220.html). > No reaction to this so far. Let's do that. > The update doesn't include new applications, because email and > xmpp-address verification is still to be done here. For this purpose > there was a blogpost planned to inform people about a (mass) email to > be sent out and from which email this would come to prevent > misunderstandings (we cannot use a xmpp.org email-address). > > I prepared this blogpost and sent out a request for it to be > proof-read > (http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2011-September/001218.html), > again without any reaction. I can post that this week, or you can since you have WordPress privileges. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
